JOURNEY

• March 1, 2023 – In a recent Leadership Development Workshop, we explored the question, “How can you make sure the pain of your past doesn’t determine your future?” What stood out and meant the most to you in this workshop? Happy said: “The workshop teachings were endowed with several wise statements like ‘Confidence is always silent unless you ask,’ ‘knowing that you have the favor of God on you changes everything,’ and many more. What really stood out to me was this statement ‘If you’re going to go far in life don’t look at the future through the rearview of the past.’ This statement, when I think about it meditatively, helps me see that we will come to understand the destiny we desire is far different than where we came from, what we have done before, and what we have been through.”
• September 8, 2022 – Happy discussed the biggest changes in his life since the end of the COVID restrictions: “A lot has changed! The liberty to go out into the community and socialize again. I have learned to carefully follow procedures. But the biggest change for me has been that of learning. After the end of the COVID-19 restrictions I learned that patience is a greater virtue. I have learned how to be patient and this has given me a new approach to life, in particular how to mold my life. There will be hindrances, things that are difficult, but the truth is they’re not permanent. Through patience, I have kept my strength to do the things I wish to pursue. This all started during the pandemic when heavy restrictions where in place and no one knew when or how this would be over. I would find myself losing patience, as I often thought to myself what am I doing, by this time I should have done this and that, but I calmed myself through prayer and picked patience as tool to help me. It’s after the COVID-19 restrictions that I realized that patience has become a bigger part of me in everything I have done and will do hereafter.